dry lab

noun, verb — 3 senses

nounalso spelled dry-lab

A laboratory where computational or mathematical analyses are used to simulate a physical phenomenon.

A photographic laboratory that does not use "wet" photographic chemicals.

dry-lab

verb

To conduct an experiment in a fraudulent way that produces a desirable result, for example by inventing data.

What probably happened is that some damn intelligent bureaucrat dry-labbed it.
Have you ever had a lab instructor doubt your data, insisting that it is impossible and perhaps implying that he thinks you dry-labbed the whole experiment?1951, {unattributed}, Illinois Technograph - Volume 67 - Page 11

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